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Mar 23^rd, 2011 at 8:07pm

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Goodly evening all...

FSX and Vista
FS Water Configurator
HDE Clouds
Aircraft: Luscombe Model 8A on Floats
Mostly all Freeware right here at Simviation... Wink

Sharing the water... Wink

Checking wind and waves... Wink

Using the tree line as a reference to height on landing... Wink

Comments and advice most welcome... Wink

Cheers...Happy Landings...Doug

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Reply #1 - Mar 23^rd, 2011 at 8:24pm

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Super screens doug, number one is awesome!

When I was a wee lad, we used to line up our D-8 Caterpillars to plow fields with little white paper bags or a spot on the sierra mountains 60 klicks away!
Not the same huh?

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Reply #2 - Mar 23^rd, 2011 at 10:03pm

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Hi Greg...

Flying has a lot in common with Farming.

When flying VFR (visual flight rules) we pick a spot on the horizon and steer or hold a straight course towards it.
It might be a water tower, bridge or just a hill top.

Just like you would do when splitting a field to plough it.

When landing a land based aircraft VFR we pick a spot on the runway and fly towards it in a straight line just like following a furrow made by a plough.

Landing on water is a little different unless you have a lighted or marked water runway.
The landing is usually not as steep an approach and we use a tree line or shore line to judge height, especially landing on glassy water.
Wind direction is extremely important when landing on water especially for small single engine aircraft like the Cessna 185 etc. as hitting a wave at the wrong angle can dip a wing causing a float to dig in flipping the aircraft or doing damage.
Things like smoke, trees, waves and boaters are all used to check the direction of the wind and the wave conditions.

Flying and Farming share one other attribute and that is the Patience of the Operator.
It takes a lot of patience to sit in a slow tractor of any kind and plough a field for hours as straight as possible just to watch the rocks grow... Grin

...(been there and done that)
Boredom soon sets in just like it does with aviators after the first hour or two in the air.

Weather can be a friend or an enemy to both an aviator or a farmer...now I am starting to ramble.... Roll Eyes

http://www.flyingfarmers.org/history.html

Cheers...Happy Landings...Doug

Cheers...Happy Landings...Doug

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Reply #3 - Mar 23^rd, 2011 at 11:46pm

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Nice shots Doug.

Don't think paper bags would work too well on water. Roll Eyes

If God intended aircraft engines to have horizontally opposed engines, Pratt and Whitney would have made them that way.

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Reply #4 - Mar 24^th, 2011 at 7:06am

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Good morning Larry...

Thanks for the comments... Wink

As for the white paper bags:
-person could get awful wet pacing off the distance between them... Grin

-I bet Greg put them over a fence post... Wink

Cheers...Happy Landings...Doug

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Reply #5 - Mar 24^th, 2011 at 12:44pm

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Flying Trucker wrote on Mar 23^rd, 2011 at 10:03pm:

Hi Greg...

Flying has a lot in common with Farming.

When flying VFR (visual flight rules) we pick a spot on the horizon and steer or hold a straight course towards it.
It might be a water tower, bridge or just a hill top.

Just like you would do when splitting a field to plough it.

When landing a land based aircraft VFR we pick a spot on the runway and fly towards it in a straight line just like following a furrow made by a plough.

Landing on water is a little different unless you have a lighted or marked water runway.
The landing is usually not as steep an approach and we use a tree line or shore line to judge height, especially landing on glassy water.
Wind direction is extremely important when landing on water especially for small single engine aircraft like the Cessna 185 etc. as hitting a wave at the wrong angle can dip a wing causing a float to dig in flipping the aircraft or doing damage.
Things like smoke, trees, waves and boaters are all used to check the direction of the wind and the wave conditions.

Flying and Farming share one other attribute and that is the Patience of the Operator.
It takes a lot of patience to sit in a slow tractor of any kind and plough a field for hours as straight as possible just to watch the rocks grow... Grin

...(been there and done that)
Boredom soon sets in just like it does with aviators after the first hour or two in the air.

Weather can be a friend or an enemy to both an aviator or a farmer...now I am starting to ramble.... Roll Eyes

http://www.flyingfarmers.org/history.html

Cheers...Happy Landings...Doug

IFF, who knew? Thank you for the link Doug, I found it quite interesting. I could get long winded about my teen years and farming albeit far less fascinating as your flying experiences! I'll spare y'all!

Happy flying Doug Cool

FSX, we've come a long way baby! Skunk Works is an official alias for Lockheed Martin’s Advanced Development Programs (ADP), formerly called Lockheed Advanced Development Projects. Skunk Works is responsible for a number of famous aircraft designs, including the U-2, the SR-71 Blackbird, the F-117 Nighthawk, and the F-22 Raptor. Its largest current project is the F-35 Lightning II

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Reply #6 - Mar 25^th, 2011 at 1:30am

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Beauties Doug......I really like the VC shot Cool

As always, you are a jackpot of knowledge........thanks

"Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth and danced the skies on laughter silvered wings. Sunward I've climbed and joined the tumbling mirth of sun split clouds.....and done a hundred things you have never dreamed of.....wheeled and soared and swung high in the sunlit silence. Hovering there, I've chased the shouting wind along and flung my eager craft through footless halls of air.

Up, up the long, delerious, burning blue I've topped the wind swept heights with easy grace where never Lark, nor even Eagle flew. While with silent lifting of mind I've trod the high untrespassed sanctity of space, put out my hand and touched the face of god"

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Reply #7 - Mar 25^th, 2011 at 9:15am